# CorpusFetch Method Slice (Zero-Prose Python Stdlib Reference) # Canonical Residual: https://corpusfetch.com/c/what-latent-state-divergence-invariants-must-survive-when-parallel-agents-share-a-base-context.md # Remnant Warrant: https://corpusfetch.com/c/what-latent-state-divergence-invariants-must-survive-when-parallel-agents-share-a-base-context.warrant.json # Markdown SHA-256: 912ef83dc9ceb4a696a83a96e468c357770f07e2d2f88111833284efb7c4606e # Code AST SHA-256: 88fd85973b293c7bd09513a37456aa8e9b3b3c333e366f97ee64956920c648b7 # Verified Classes: DivergenceVerdict, ParallelAgent, ParallelState, DivergencePolicy, DivergenceManifest, LatentDivergenceGuard # Defensive Guards: 0 fail-closed invariants (zero external deps) from dataclasses import dataclass from enum import Enum, auto import hashlib import json class DivergenceVerdict(Enum): NO_SHARED_CONTEXT = auto() CONVERGED_STATE = auto() DIVERGENCE_ACCEPTABLE = auto() DIVERGENCE_CRITICAL = auto() @dataclass(frozen=True) class ParallelAgent: agent_id: str base_context_hash: str observed_updates: tuple[str, ...] current_state_hash: str @dataclass(frozen=True) class ParallelState: agents: tuple[ParallelAgent, ...] divergence_metric: float reconvergence_protocol: str | None @dataclass(frozen=True) class DivergencePolicy: max_acceptable_divergence: float @dataclass(frozen=True) class DivergenceManifest: verdict: DivergenceVerdict directive: str manifest_digest: str class LatentDivergenceGuard: @staticmethod def _hash(data: str) -> str: return hashlib.sha256(data.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest() @classmethod def evaluate_parallelism( cls, state: ParallelState, policy: DivergencePolicy ) -> DivergenceManifest: # Gate 1: No shared context base_contexts = {a.base_context_hash for a in state.agents} if len(base_contexts) > 1: digest = cls._hash(json.dumps({ "agents": str(len(state.agents)), "base_contexts": str(len(base_contexts)) }, sort_keys=True)) return DivergenceManifest( verdict=DivergenceVerdict.NO_SHARED_CONTEXT, directive=f"PROCEED: Agents have distinct base contexts, no shared-origin assumption.", manifest_digest=digest ) # Gate 2: Identical observations (converged) update_sets = {frozenset(a.observed_updates) for a in state.agents} if len(update_sets) == 1: digest = cls._hash(json.dumps({ "base": next(iter(base_contexts)), "updates": tuple(sorted(next(iter(update_sets)))) }, sort_keys=True)) return DivergenceManifest( verdict=DivergenceVerdict.CONVERGED_STATE, directive=f"PROCEED: Agents share identical update set, state converged.", manifest_digest=digest ) # Gate 3: Divergence acceptable if state.divergence_metric <= policy.max_acceptable_divergence: digest = cls._hash(json.dumps({ "base": next(iter(base_contexts)), "divergence": f"{state.divergence_metric:.3f}", "threshold": f"{policy.max_acceptable_divergence:.3f}" }, sort_keys=True)) return DivergenceManifest( verdict=DivergenceVerdict.DIVERGENCE_ACCEPTABLE, directive=f"PROCEED: Divergence {state.divergence_metric:.3f} within threshold {policy.max_acceptable_divergence:.3f}.", manifest_digest=digest ) # Gate 4: Critical divergence if not state.reconvergence_protocol: return DivergenceManifest( verdict=DivergenceVerdict.DIVERGENCE_CRITICAL, directive=f"HALT: Divergence {state.divergence_metric:.3f} > {policy.max_acceptable_divergence:.3f}, no reconvergence protocol.", manifest_digest=cls._hash(f"CRITICAL:{state.divergence_metric:.3f}") ) digest = cls._hash(json.dumps({ "base": next(iter(base_contexts)), "divergence": f"{state.divergence_metric:.3f}", "protocol": state.reconvergence_protocol }, sort_keys=True)) return DivergenceManifest( verdict=DivergenceVerdict.DIVERGENCE_CRITICAL, directive=f"ACTION: Reconverge via {state.reconvergence_protocol}.", manifest_digest=digest )